Slvrthoughts and Musings

The day started with a phone call from Johnny at 7:30am asking me if I had my copy of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows yet.  That woke me up quickly!

After my morning ablutions, I skipped breakfast and made the usual walk down our heavily rutted street (that the local government has yet to address properly) to get to the corner and grab a cab that will bring me to Fully Booked at Gateway Mall in Cubao.  I could have taken the jeep, I suppose, but I was impatient.

The cab ride was uneventful ... usual Saturday morning traffic ... which means there was hardly any.  The most aggressive occupant of the street being the buses.  I arrive at Gateway close to 9am.  As I enter Fully Booked the first person I saw was ... who else, but ... Nick!  Again!  I swear, this guy is all over the place! hehehe.

Sidenote:  Nick didn't know I've been a Ravenclaw since New Worlds 2.  I guess I've been too quiet in the lists and forums.  When the old castle was attacked by Dementors and the new castle was built, I don't even know if I was able to re-register.  I made sure Erika did, though.

I arrive --- reservation slip and balance in hand --- to claim my book.  Yey!  Excited!  I finally have ... the precious!  Oops!  Wrong fandom!   I also received a Hermione Granger button and a chance to win an authentic replica of Harry Potter's wand made by Noble Collection.  I want the wand!  I want to give it to my daughter.  I've got too many fandoms so, since Erika and I match at Harry Potter, I'll just help her build up her PHP paraphernalia. 

Here are some photos of the display at Gateway Mall in Cubao.  It begins in Fully Booked then moves down to the display area at the 2nd level near the atrium.  Books were available as early as 7:00am.


There was a Harry Potter Uno game there and the prize for winning official games was one of these awesome official Harry Potter book markers.

See the little girl?  Not the tall one, the little one on the chair?  That innocent-looking 6-year old poppet is actually an animagus ... a savage Uno-beast that creamed us (me, her sister, and her mom) at Harry Potter Uno and went home with the prize ... a Platform 9 3/4 book marker.  AAAARGH!!!! I really wanted to win that, too!  By the way, she had a choice between:

• a nimbus 2000 book marker
• Harry's glasses book marker
  
• Platform 9 3/4 book marker
  

This kid was sneaky.  She and her sister got sorted into Hufflepuff but I think she really should be a Slytherin.  After all, aren't the Slytherins the cunning ones?    She acted like she didn't know the game and then WHAM!  She hit me with +2 and +4 cards one after the other!  Congratulations, Ah-an!

And now, if you will all excuse me, I think I will go and read my book, hehehe.  So far, I'm on page 30.